Below is the lyrics of the song La guimbarde , artist - Hugues Aufray with translation
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Hugues Aufray
Trois garçons qui maraudaient
S’en allaient par la forêt
Le premier était un gueux
Le second un miséreux
Le troisième, qu'était boiteux
Lui, jouait de la guimbarde
Le plus grand allait devant
Le cadet allait suivant
Le boiteux, qu’allait traînant
Avait tout juste treize ans
Tout le matin ils marchèrent
Dans les branches et la fougère
Aux abords d’une clairière
Soudain, tous trois s’arrêtèrent
Dans la lumière sereine
Entourée de marjolaines
Appuyée tout contre un chêne
Une enfant filait la laine
L’un lui donna des noisettes
L’autre un bouquet de violettes
Le boiteux lui dit: Fillette
Que tu es donc mignonnette !
Soudain l’aîné s’approcha
Et sa menotte lui vola
La fillette s’affola
S’en fut courant vers le bois
C’est l’aîné qui l'égorgea
L’autre qui la violenta
Le boiteux, lui, s'échappa
Et sa guimbarde tomba
On raconte que, dans ce bois
À la lune, on voit parfois
Le fantôme d’un gueux
Le fantôme d’un miséreux
Le fantôme d’un boiteux
Cherchant en vain sa guimbarde
Sa guimbarde, sa guimbarde
Three marauding boys
Were going through the forest
The first was a beggar
The second a destitute
The third, what was lame
He played the jew's harp
The bigger one went ahead
The younger went next
The lame, who was dragging
Was just thirteen years old
All morning they walked
In the branches and the fern
Near a clearing
Suddenly all three stopped
In the serene light
Surrounded by marjoram
Leaning against an oak tree
A child was spinning wool
One gave him hazelnuts
The other a bouquet of violets
The lame said to her: Girl
How cute are you!
Suddenly the eldest approached
And his handcuff flew from him
The girl panicked
Ran off to the woods
It was the eldest who slaughtered him
The other who abused her
The lame one escaped
And his jew's harp fell
They say that in this wood
In the moon we sometimes see
The Ghost of a Beggar
The ghost of a pauper
A lame man's ghost
Searching in vain for his harp
His jew's harp, his jew's harp
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